George Rapall Noyes (Slavic scholar)
George Rapall Noyes (April 2, 1873 – May 5, 1952) was Professor of Slavic Languages at Berkeley University of California.
George was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873, and attended Harvard University, graduating at the top of his class in 1894. After receiving his M.A. he completed his PhD dissertation, Dryden as Critic in 1898. He then engaged in the study of Russian under Professor Leo Wiener and obtained a John Harvard Fellowship to spend the two years studying of Slavic philology at St. Petersburg University.[1]
Translations
He became a prolific translator:[1]
- Plays of Alexander Ostrovsky (1917)
- Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (1917)
- The Religion of Ancient Greece by Thaddeus Zieliński (1926)
- Poems by Jan Kochanowski (1928)
- Juliusz Slowacki: Anhelli (1930)
- Masterpieces of Russian Drama (1933)
References
- 1 2 "George Rapall Noyes, Slavic Languages: Berkeley". University of California. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
External links
- Works by George Rapall Noyes at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Rapall Noyes at Internet Archive
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